Thursday, 1 January 2015

Pictures

'For, if we think of this existence of the individual as a
room—be it large or small—it is evident that most people only get to know a
corner of their room, a corner by the window, a strip on which they walk up or
down. In this way they have a certain security: yet far more human is that
perilous insecurity which drives the prisoners in Poe's stories to take hold of
the shapes of their fearful prison and not to be strangers unfamiliar with the
unspeakable horrors of their sojourn there. But we are not prisoners, no traps
or snares are set around us and there is nothing that should frighten us or
torment us.'